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hss-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

Hotspot Shield

AnchorFree Inc

This is the downloadable installer to AnchorFree's Hotsopt Shield, an ad-supported VPN client that integrates with the browser. The free version injects ads in the web browser. The application hss-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe by AnchorFree Inc has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the HotspotShield installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.iwasel.net and multiple other hosts. While running, it connects to the Internet address 50-57-234-194.static.cloud-ips.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
AnchorFree Inc  (signed and verified)

Product:
Hotspot Shield

Version:
3.19.0.20707

MD5:
96ebf2490115b6dac390c873809bdaff

SHA-1:
50de6283bb894414938a400dfd0fd133158b1411

SHA-256:
34e790d163a1fef367384032107804bd027e6640d523254d39843e04f1c07b7c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 3:46:23 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.AnchorFree.Installer.Meta (L)
16.6.10.9

File size:
7.1 MB (7,485,728 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
HotspotShield

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\hss-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
AnchorFree Inc

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/28/2011 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/14/2014 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=AnchorFree Inc, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=AnchorFree Inc, L=Sunnyvale, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
68A4A0CC448443C288A22A91D7F82126

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/9/2009 4:22:54 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:qU+h22f67Gxsrb1cMjmTdKySPHnlRuIBHBaOpx/r:qv2u67Usdj5ySHnl8kNjT

Entry address:
0x33FF

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 70, 85, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, B0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, EE, 7E, 00, E8, 67, 27, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, ED, 7E, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 6C, 85, 40, 00, FF, 15, 80, 81, 40, 00, 68, 54, 85, 40, 00, 68, C0, 6D, 7E, 00, E8, 35, 26, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, F0, 83, 00, 57, E8, 23, 26, 00, 00...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9968

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
25 KB (25,600 bytes)

The file hss-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 16 URLs.

https://www.iwasel.net/imgstore/setup/.../bVPN_2_2_1_setup.exe

C:\Users\dr sultan\Downloads\HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

http://download2226.mediafire.com/73ab9iyarygg/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

http://download892.mediafire.com/vbkdrp6mtjtg/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

https://onedrive.live.com/download.aspx?cid=4EBCCF22E7267301&resid=4EBCCF22E7267301!358&canary=5BbjdxBIjQphcdo0ch4K/.../rSNsw=8&ithint=.exe

http://serv1.anadown.com/files/1/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

temp:HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

http://serv1.anadown.com/files/1/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

https://s3.amazonaws.com/.../HSS-4.15.1-install-plain-716-plain.exe

http://touch.kaspersky.com/.../1463151643

http://download1699.mediafire.com/u9u4hc82c4jg/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

https://archive.org/download/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

http://www.anadown.com/reading.html

http://serv1.anadown.com/files/6/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

http://www.almlf.com/qzoodokpqisx.html

https://s3.amazonaws.com/.../HSS-3.19-install-e-624-plain.exe

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 74-115-2-210.anchorfree.com  (74.115.2.210:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 74-115-2-220.anchorfree.com  (74.115.2.220:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to hit-adult.opendns.com  (146.112.61.106:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-203-206.fra50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.203.206:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 50-57-234-194.static.cloud-ips.com  (50.57.234.194:80)

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